I just have to say, I am so disappointed in Rift's dev team. How they can let a product get all the way to consumers and still we have to deal with these problems. Like, I shouldn't have to bypass the hotfix check in order to run the damn setup software. My system already has those two updates. there is NO REASON for it to be like this. And this is almost a MONTH after this comment was posted! I had to open command prompt, navigate to the folder where the setup file exists, and run the bypass hotfix check command just to get past that stupid hotfix check. I seriously can't believe this. If I hadn't found out about this from cybereality's comment, I would still be cursing my computer in a rage. WTF, guys?

Can anyone please help me, iam also having the same problem and i have also tried the command prompt as show above but it still pops up with the same hotfix request which is definitely installed. Any help would be amazing! thanks in advance.

I'm having the same problem, I tried to skip the hotfix through the command prompt and it loaded setup right to the screen saying I need the updates. How do you install this $600 paperweight? I've been waiting to use this thing for so long, now that I finally get a video card that isn't defective, I can't install this. Good lord.

I tried but it hung forever, so I just did a search for both of the updates themselves. One was already installed the other was not. Now it fails on install, where are the logs saved? I have to keep downloading an 809 mb file, it tries to install, then says it failed and gives no explination. This is infuriating, how do you install this?!

This is the most awful, buggy, inept setup in the history of computing, when it doesn't say can't connect, it will say you miss updates even if you don't, it's like a setup requires an animal sacrifice for it to work. It's unacceptable. This level of incompetence from a company selling expensive hardware and you can't even enjoy it until you wipe your disk clean, spend a full day on it and then it still will find a way not to install!!!! ENOUGH! If you don't want us to NEVER EVER buy another product from your company, you will give us an offline setup with the option to bypass any sneeze that the setup think will block it. Drop an offline setup already!

I've never been so infuriated with a piece of software... Oculus is now at the top of my list of shittiest company on the surface of this planet. I bought DK1 (for which you dropped like an old sock, it's a paperweight now, thanks!), DK2 and now CV1, and every time I try to install it, something goes wrong, every time. I've had it.

I was having similar issues with the Oculus installer. Windows Update started hanging on "checking for updates," I tried installing the hotfixes manually, and OculusSetup claims they're not there. Re-running the manual installers would abort saying they were already installed.

For some reason I tried changing my update settings. I had selected no automatic updates (bottom, not recommended option) when first installing. Then I guess SP1 set that to auto-install. The hang on checking for updates started happening right after installing SP1, so I think that's probably what did it.

Anyway, I switched back to no automatic updates and almost immediately the check finished and I was able to click Install. I've been installing updates ever since. It's back to the usual song and dance of check all, install, reboot, check for updates, repeat. Probably on my 10th restart... Thanks Microsoft.

So there is a trick to skip that part of the setup. Open the command prompt (and navigate to the folder where the setup file exists) and run this:

OculusSetup.exe /bypassHotfixCheck

However, if the hotfixes *are* missing you will have lots of problems after that point.

pray tell.....what kind of problems will happen? i had to do the bypass hotfix thing to get the software just to install after spending 600 pound oon this thing! what else is abuyer supposed to do? oculus really need to get this sorted out. i wouldn't buy a car only to discover i need to push it around to get anywere. i skipped the hotfix check and it works. if you knowits a problem, get a patch out or something.